The Pace of Life

“More often than not, we have to slow our thinking and feeling and seeing and hearing until they are open to each other.” Mark Nepo, The Exquisite Risk

Many of us have become aware of the gift of being in the moment. We might remind ourselves and others about how important it is to live in the moment…it is all we really have. No promises about the future and no changing the past. All of life happens in the moment. Remembering to pause and consider this wisdom influences our experience of life.

If we want to experience the richness of the moment, it is necessary to continue beyond the pause of recognition. If we want to experience the fullness of the moment we should string a few of these pauses together…a few breaths to slow it all down.  From this place the real noticing and the real living begins. We might notice our body…where it is relaxed and where it is holding tension. We might notice our thoughts…if they are coming from love or from fear. We might notice the myriad shades of green in just one glance out the window. We might feel from our intuition a rising up of a new idea. We might know from our heart that regardless of what is happening in the world right now we have all that we need.

Living in the now moment is more than just acknowledging that it is so. Living in the moment requires that we throttle back and gear down. When we  do this, we bring the full awareness of our entire self right here, right now. It is impossible to pull the richness and fullness from life if we live at a pace that makes it all a blur.

Our reward? We can experience some of the greatest gifts of life…connection, gratitude, peace, wonder, appreciation, hope and possibility.

Peace always

Paula